From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- add
 percpu_counter_mod_bh
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:12:17 -0800
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
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> Once decrapify-asm-generic-localh.patch is merged I think all architectures
>  can and should use asm-generic/local.h.

err, no.  Because that's just atomic_long_t, and that's a locked instruction.

We need to review and fix up those architectures which have implemented the
optimised versions.